Connect to Community: 5 Upcoming Opportunities

We’re continuing to explore ways to connect to community in Tacoma even as in-person events and gatherings are postponed and reimagined. For the past couple of years we’ve created monthly lists featuring ways to get to know Tacoma, to get involved, to meet each other, to learn, and give, and explore. This January we started shifting to weekly posts with 3-5 ideas for staying engaged. We hope you find something once in a while that connects to you, inspires you, or just sounds like fun.

Connect to Tacoma with Events & Gatherings

Hilltop Stories: Meet the Artists - Dionne Bonner & Whitney Brady

Friday, January 29th
7-8:30 pm
Online Event

Hilltop Stories: Visual and Audio Reflections is now showing at the Handforth Virtual Gallery. Visual art: Dionne Bonner, Audio: Whitney Brady

Experience a Virtual Gallery Exhibit on Wed, Feb. 3rd!

Black Parents Alliance: Black History Month Game Night

Wednesday, February 3rd
6:30-7:30 pm
Online Event

Compete against other families for prizes in 3 rounds of Kahoot:

Round 1: “Traditional” Black History
Round 2: Pop-culture (80s-early 2000s)
Round 3: Current pop-culture.

Please note: you must belong to our join the Black Parents Alliance Facebook Group to participate in this event.

Connect to Tacoma with Ongoing Opportunities

Tacoma Refugee Choir Teen Sings

Wednesdays
4-5:15 pm
Zoom

Free and open to all students grades 6-12! For now, this is a community-building experience via Zoom, but the hope is to create an in-person teen singing experience when it’s safe to do so.

Image from The Grand Cinema

Image from The Grand Cinema

Support The Grand Cinema via the Virtual Screening Room

Any day
You choose the time
Online

We can’t go to our favorite local cinemas right now, but we can still offer them support and help keep them going! Visit The Grand’s Virtual Screening Room from the comfort of your home theater (ie your couch, your bed, that one corner you retreat to) and select a film to screen. Prices reflect the cost of traditional ticket, but you only need one for your household. Choose individual films, or consider purchasing the Oscar Contenders From Around the World pass ($30, four films).

Connect to Tacoma by Volunteering, Donating & Accessing Services

Donate Urgently Needed Items to Tacoma Rescue Mission

The Tacoma Rescue Mission serves vulnerable children, women, and men of our community. With a few different ways to give, you might find one that works for you and helps people who could use a hand!

  • Drop-off items (make sure to note which location to head to with your help)

  • Send items through the Tacoma Rescue Mission’s Wish List

  • Make a secure financial gift

  • Donate your car! (for this one, contact Jess at jesss@trm.org)

  • All the details at Tacoma Rescue Mission

Keep in touch about Tacoma life, community, events, homes, and a bit about us.

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What's Happening, Tacoma? 21 May Events
What's Happening, Tacoma? 21 May Events

May is Bike Month. May is Historic Preservation Month. May holds Affordable Housing Week. May is the month for a lightsaber battle, for live music and crafts in Old Town Park, for night markets, plant sales at your local high school, hands-on printmaking and paper arts, and locally made short films. It’s the month to learn about the history of Tacoma, and even contribute your own story at events like the Eastside Story Fest. It’s the month to pick-up litter with a bunch of nice people, the month to set out nutritious foods for your mail carrier to share with the food bank, the month to take time to learn more about affordable housing. It’s the month to tune up your bike and join a group ride.

Out on the Town 2024: Tacoma Tuesdays
Out on the Town 2024: Tacoma Tuesdays

Tacoma, Tuesdays, Trivia, Tacos, Talent. It’s the truth, there’s stuff to do. We have 19 of those things listed right here (twenty would have sounded so good) and not all of them start with “t.” There’s ballet and book club, wine and film, story time and bingo. So dust off your dancing shoes, clean your spectacles, strap the baby in a stroller, study up on random facts, warm up your vocal chords, and work up an appetite; it’s Tuesday in Tacoma!

Tacoma Love: 5 Good Things—Vol. 4
Tacoma Love: 5 Good Things—Vol. 4

This is not an ultimate, all time, best of the best, win or go home, top 5 list. No, we aren’t really bringing that kind of energy to life. This is the 4th edition of 5 things we like in Tacoma from a list of way more things we like in Tacoma. Sound good? An annual rogue art treasure hunt, a tiny slip of sandy beach, an old place to watch new and cult classic films, a weekly opportunity for repairing your stuff, and a spot where the noodles and broth fill you up in a good way. Some of it’s free. All of it’s good. We’re not making any other claims (who needs all that best-stress anyway?).

The Sunset Side: Tacoma's Other Waterfront
The Sunset Side: Tacoma's Other Waterfront

This month we're here to give a shout out to the other waterfront, the home of Titlow Beach, Seashore Drive, the iconic Narrows Bridges, and the Tacoma sunset. We’ll share where we eat and what we order, the trails we like to take, and what makes this side of the city feel like home. All you need is one evening for a waterfront getaway.

Tacoma High 5 - August 2023
Tacoma High 5 - August 2023

Tacoma High 5 is our way to nudge you toward what we love about Tacoma. It’s a short list with a commitment to the local—it embraces the season, invites a bit of variety into life, encourages a spirit of exploration and some generosity as well. This month’s list includes a benefit concert with karaoke, a music festival staged on porches across Central Tacoma, block parties and outdoor markets, free berries, a favorite local publication, a neighborhood clean-up, and the chance to support the YWCA while eating hot dogs and nacho cheese. Maybe we’ll see you out there!

  1. Community Event

  2. Sweet Treat

  3. Exploration & Adventure

  4. Local Love

  5. Volunteering & Sharing

Tacoma Outdoor Dining Guide
Tacoma Outdoor Dining Guide

Want to go out and really be out—out in the open air, beneath a colorful umbrella, on a shaded patio, beside a bustling sidewalk, seated on a deck overlooking the water, pulled up to a bar counter by the street? We’ve gathered Tacoma’s outdoor dining spots by neighborhood to get you started. Take a look at our list of restaurants, cafes, and bars with outdoor seating, then get yourself away from the screen, out the door, and into the life of Tacoma’s summer. See you out there!

Meet the Tacoma Community House New Little Free Library!
Meet the Tacoma Community House New Little Free Library!

It’s finally here! The Tacoma Community House Little Free Library is up and open. Duggan, Brooks & Books are grateful to the Tacoma Community House and Craig (our designer and builder!) for all their help and support in getting this library to its home in the Hilltop Neighborhood of Tacoma. Read all about it!

Tacoma High 5 - May
Tacoma High 5 - May

Tacoma High 5 is our way to nudge you toward what we love about Tacoma. It’s a short list with a commitment to the local—it embraces the season, invites delight, encourages a spirit of exploration and some generosity as well. This month’s list includes a ballet about a local activist, a new coffee shop to visit, a new open mic, farmers market updates, a community scavenger hunt/race for affordable housing, bike month events, and a chance to lend your hand at cleaning up the city!

  1. Community Event

  2. Treat Yourself

  3. Exploration & Adventure

  4. Local Love

  5. Volunteering & Sharing

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